Hey, did you see this?
It is totally awesome =)
How about implementing the idea into blender in the future?
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~thormae/paper/EG12.pdf
http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~thormae/paper/EG12_2.pdf
Here is a video (…it’s in english. Only the website is german):
While it does autorig, the skeleton created is a base level rig good for retargeting, not so good for manual work. It’ll be very interesting though to see what software products evolve from the work.
Hope som people see this case study and develop some solutions =)